medium severity December 31, 2017 · 1 min read

The Fly on the Wall Data Breach (2017)

If you are a customer of The Fly on the Wall, here’s what’s now in circulation.

In December 2017, the stock market news website The Fly on the Wall suffered a data breach. The data in the breach included 84k unique email addresses as well as purchase histories and credit card data. Numerous attempts were made to contact The Fly on the Wall about the incident, however no responses were received.

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo

value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

value redacted in this sample582 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach

unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

What to do now

Steps that match what this notice says was exposed

Every step below is free and you do it yourself, and none of it depends on The Fly on the Wall.

Tell your bank before you do anything else. Account and routing details are the fastest-moving of the fields in this notice. Call the number on the back of your card rather than any number in an email, and ask them to watch the account and reissue the card.

One more, whatever was exposed: a breach notice is a favourite disguise for a phishing email. If a message about this arrives, do not use its links — go to the company’s site yourself, or call the number on your statement.

Were you a The Fly on the Wall customer?

The Fly on the Wall is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

84K accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity Medium includes account details that can be misused directly

Disclosed December 31, 2017

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 84K

Data exposed Age groupsCredit cardsEmail addressesGendersNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addresses +2 more

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Editorial & sourcing policy

GalaxyWarden is a breach-monitoring service and news aggregator. We do not exfiltrate, host, purchase, or redistribute stolen data. Breach information is compiled from publicly accessible sources and threat-intelligence platforms, and is reported as claims attributed to their source. We promptly correct or remove material shown to be inaccurate — see our content & takedown policy or write to support@galaxywarden.com.

Sources: Have I Been Pwned

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Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

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